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He published the work under his recently adopted pseudonym, Shai Agnon.18 In 1966, he would win Israel’s first Nobel Prize.
Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
The first book of modern Hebrew literature in the Yishuv was written by Ze’ev Yavetz, who moved to Palestine in 1887. Deeply unsettled by those immigrants who seemed insufficiently committed to re-creating the Jew, he used his sharp pen to attack those who he felt failed to appreciate that the decision to come to Palestine ought to flow from a pass
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David Grossman • A Horse Walks into a Bar
As Herzl was writing in German in the last decade of the nineteenth century, the best-known Jew in the English-speaking world was Israel Zangwill.
Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
Willem est là, emprisonné à jamais dans une conversation solitaire. Lui aussi est là, emprisonné dans l’existence.